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You all know the 'clickies': things that sound as a turn signal turns on.
The idea is simple: you'd have one clickie (TICK-tock, TICK-tock) for your left turn signal, and a different one (BIMP-bomp, BIMP-bomp) for your right turn signal.
With auditory as well as visual feedback, you'd have that
much less chance of signalling wrong, and it'd be dead simple to implement.
Blingtones
http://web.archive....ng-Tones#1060693136
I demi-baked this, before The Great Crash. [neilp, Oct 30 2005]
[link]
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How about "LEFT-left" and "RIGHT-right"? |
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Heh, you'd end up line dancing in the car. |
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"LEFT and uh left and uh left and uh..." Waltzing. |
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Now it's starting to sound like Parappa The Rapper. |
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Given that most cars have stereo systems, how about having the clicking come from the appropriate side in the first place? |
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A better idea altogether. |
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I'm forever putting my left-hand signal on when I want to turn right. No, hang on; I never actually do that. |
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I'm more likely to turn the wiper blades on. |
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If you had a stereo sound for every single thing that you could do with a car by twisting this, turning that, pushing this, it could all get entertainingly confusing especially when your phone goes off and you end up speaking to the cigarette lighter. |
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Sorry, but people that can't figure out which direction is which simply shouldn't be allowed behind a wheel. |
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'A Tale of Two Clickies' ? |
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I agree with [RayfordSteele]. |
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- to someone who drives before they learn their left and right. |
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I had no idea that this was a problem. The directions are the same as those of the steering wheel. Should I be worried? |
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I love this for its understated absurdity. It would be very useful for the blind, and for those who signal by flailing about in the vicinity of the wheel before seizing it and giving it a jerk. A solution looking for a problem. |
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I too often turn on the wipers, [po]. Sometimes I flash the brights. |
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Signalling wrong........does anyone ever do that?
Though, pushing the stick UP for left and DOWN for right isn't too natural. (thats in an Australian car anyway......you Americans are ass-about I think.) |
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Maybe the stick should be sticking straight UP so you can actually push it the direction you want to go. |
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[po]: Maybe you also need a voice that goes "WIPE... wipe.... WIPE....wipe..." |
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A brilliant idea...
...if only there were more people who actually needed it. |
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[UP for left and DOWN for right}
would be natural if the stick's on
the right side of the steering
column behind the wheel - you
flick it with your hand in the
direction you'll be turning the
wheel soon -
UP=left=counterclockwise,
DOWN=right=clockwise |
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My first car had the indicator
lever on the left, so the
up/down was reversed. They
were still instinctually the
appropriate directions though. |
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The standard in UK is to have the stalk on the left of the column, with the directions per [BunsenHoneydew]'s logic. My first several cars had the stalk on the right; that was standard practise at the time, but was changed for EU standardization. It's sensible for left-hand-drive (ie, the remainder of the EU), but I preferred to be able to signal and change gear at the same time (useful when exiting roundabouts). |
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Don't know about the UK, but in the US so few people actually use their turn signals that the sound of the 'clickies' would likely be mistaken for a cricket in the car. |
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Corvette, Cadillac and others. |
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We'd be a right-centric world, because most cars with absent-minded drivers already BIMP-bomp. |
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